southern

Faculty / Students

For many years, the History Department at the University of Florida has had significant strength in the study of the history of the American South, and its faculty, library holdings, and location all support that strength. For prospective graduate students, important considerations are the strength of the library and the support that we provide for our doctoral students. We believe that we provide both. One of our traditional strengths at UF has been a cluster of research interests and faculty support in the history of the American South. A large number of our faculty do work in southern history, in a variety of areas, using different approaches.

Faculty
The United States historians with a research and/or teaching specialty in southern history include:

• Juliana Barr
• Sean Adams
• David Colburn
• Jack E. Davis
• William A. Link
• Steven Noll
• Jon Sensbach

Our current and recent PhDs include:

Anderson, Jeffrey
Dissertation Director: Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Dissertation Title: “Conjure in African-American Society”
Completed, 2002

Araki, Wakako
Dissertation Director: Louise M. Newman
Dissertation Title: “Educating the Other Race, Performing Gender, and Fashioning a Class: The Penn School Experiment and Freedpeople’s Education in the U.S. South, 1862-1906”
In Progress

Broomall, James
Dissertation Director: William Link

Bryson, Heather
Dissertation Director: William Link

Catron, John
Dissertation Director: Jon Sensbach
Dissertation Title: “The Atlantic World Origins of African American Christianity”
In Progress

Cunningham, Sean
Dissertation Directors: William A. Link and Brian Ward
Dissertation Title: “The Right Image: Reconstructing Political Ideology in Texas, 1964-80”
In Progress

Dosher, Craig
Dissertation Director: Brian Ward
Dissertation Title: “A History of Southern Manhood: The Kappa Alpha Order, 1865-1965”
In Progress

Frank, Lisa
Dissertation Director: Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Dissertation Title: “To ‘Cure Her of Her Pride and Boasting’: The Gendered Implications of Sherman’s March”
Completed, 2001

Harvey, Marcus
Dissertation Director: Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Dissertation Title: “The Cultural Significance of Old Age in the American South, 1830-1900”
Completed, 2001

Houston, Benjamin
Dissertation Director: Brian Ward
Dissertation Title: “The Nashville Way: A Southern City Confronts Racial Change, 1945-75”
Completed, 2006

Hunt, Judith
Dissertation Director: Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Dissertation Title: “Beyond the Power of Fortune: The Middleton Family, 1794-1877”
Completed, 2006

Key, Barclay
Dissertation Director: Brian Ward
Dissertation Title: “Race and Restoration: Churches of Christ and the Black Freedom Struggle”
In Progress

Langdale, John III
Dissertation Director: Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Dissertation Title: “Superfluous Southerners: Cultural Conservatism and the South, 1930-90”
In Progress

Minor, Kelly
Dissertation Director: Fitzhugh Brundage
Dissertation Title: “Power in the Land: Home Demonstration in Florida, 1915-60”
Completed, 2006

Moore, Courtney
Dissertation Director: William Link

Stephens, Randall J.
Dissertation Director: Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Dissertation Title: “The Fire Spreads: The Origins of the Southern Holiness and Pentecostal Movements”
Completed, 2004

White, John
Dissertation Director: Brian Ward
Dissertation Title: “Managed Compliance: White Resistance and Desegregation in South Carolina, 1950-70”
Completed, 2006

Whitely, William B.
Dissertation Director: Fitzhugh Brundage
Dissertation Title: “Precious Memories: Narratives of the Democracy in Mississippi, 1865-1915”
Completed, 2004